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Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82 says that Faculty commitment has always been the driving force behind the Core—and that when Faculty enthusiasm begins to waver, it ought to be re-examined...
...undermine his government. Thaksin said "devilish" forces have been paying an army of henchmen to ride in cabs and say terrible things about him-in the nefarious hope that the cabbies would pass the criticism on to other fares. "They're damaging the country, but I won't waver," a resolute Thaksin assured his undoubtedly alarmed audience. The leader's latest revelations came less than a month after it was discovered that his government has been investigating bank accounts of activist groups and journalists who have been critical of the Prime Minister, though far more openly than their smear-from...
...much about these days, doesn't apply on the men's downhill course or the bobsled track. The distances of Olympic events are fixed. Five hundred meters. A thousand. No more, no fewer. The times are measured to the hundredth of a second by instruments that don't waver. No messy relativism. And the judges--however fallible or mischievous--are monitored by a clear-eyed worldwide audience, not a secretive Big Five accounting firm...
...Europe, public support starts to waver as the massive technological superiority of U.S. forces seems deftly undermined by the crude power of video images. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw complains about the voracious impatience of a 24-hour media cycle out of sync with military reality. "The press," he says, "have almost no humility and no memory...
...fundamentalist terror groups hate the West and modernism and would despise us even if there had never been an Israel. As Tom Friedman has noted, they don't hate our policies. They hate us. But it would be presumptuous to believe that American support of Israel can't waver down the road, especially if Americans grow weary of the fight that produces extensive American casualties. (Okay, this assumes that there is a long, twilight struggle...